Far from being a food spoiler, the fluorescent lighting in supermarkets actually can boost the nutritional value of fresh spinach, scientists are reporting. The finding could lead to improved ways of preserving and enhancing the nut...

As an alternative to toxic pesticides, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created "super-sexed" sterilized male leafhoppers to knock bug boots with females...

Scientists have created the first invisibility cloak. Voice of America has more. I can’t wait to see what the folks at Danger Room will have to say. Related posts:Clinton Campaign Self-Parody Watch Alan Keyes Watch Presidential ...

Harry Potter fans must be geeking out right now! German researchers say they are one step closer to developing an actual invisibility cloak. The uber smart scientists at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have recently been...

Photo via Todd Neff Guardian columnist George Monbiot recently did the written-word equivalent of throwing his hands up in the air over the growing chasm between actual climate science and the public's understanding of it. One of ...

In today’s “gross news” category, some female insects might be getting lucky. As an alternative to toxic pesticides, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created “super-sexed” sterilized male leafhoppers to knock bu...

Scientists at Korea University in Seoul have demonstrated a prototype of a new biomonitoring system that transmits data through the body, replacing wires and minimizing the need for batteries. The device is 300 micrometres thick and...

Biodiversity loss. Land use. Freshwater use. Nitrogen and phosphorus cycles. Stratospheric ozone. Ocean acidification. Climate change. Chemical Pollution. Aerosol loading in the atmosphere.A team of 30 scientists across the globe ...

Except not really, because like all potentially cool science stuff it's only kind of cool in a technical way and it will be decades before you can throw one on and loiter in locker rooms. So put down your Harry Potter...

Guest post by Christine Dell'Amore from National Geographic News Attention, men: In the last second your bodies each produced at least 1,500 sperm cells. Now...

The key to human individuality may lie not in our genes, but in the sequences that surround and control them, according to new research by scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Yale University. The interaction...

Can't serve openly in the military. Can't get married. Can't donated blood. Can't get poked and prodded by scientists looking for the latest medical breakthrough? CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us Tag...

In the ongoing quest to identify the genetic factors involved in disease, scientists have increasingly turned to genome-wide association studies, or GWAS, which enable the scanning of up to a million genetic markers in thousands of ...

Invisibility cloak project is back on! It’s from a different team of scientists that were using silver-plated nanoparticles in water though, with these latest Harry Potter enthusiasts using photonic metamaterials to change light ray...

It's not just humans who like watching high definition televisions, scientists say octopuses have a preference for them too.Researchers claim octopuses get excited when watching other sea animals on high-definition televisions - but...

Combating chemical and bio-terror is a complex issue. Terrorists can strike at any time and with anything. It might be smallpox or salmonella or it could be a chemical nerve agent like sarin. In order to successfully thwart an attac...

For the first time, scientists have rendered an object invisible in three dimensions, BBC News reports.We're talking about an extremely small object here, about the size of a thousandth of a millimeter. Scaling this technology to wo...

Scientists working on a treatment for babies born with cleft palates have made a promising breakthrough and the first clinical trials are planned for early next year. Clefts are the most common birth defect in Britain, with one in e...

German scientists say they have successfully used a new material to render an object invisible in three dimensions for the first time. Previous efforts at so-called invisibility cloaks could only hide objects from light coming in on...

CPS science fair will feature budding scientists who experiment with everyday technology. (Sun-Times) Forget the old plaster of Paris volcanoes and hobby-kit models of the human heart. These junior scientists experiment on everythin...